| George Bush - 1839 - 738 Seiten
...times of their attachment and regret. — PAXTON. Ver. 18. Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's...: and it is called unto this day Absalom's Place. On the east, we came to the reputed tomb of Absalom, resembling nearly, in the size, form, and the... | |
| Robert Weaver - 1840 - 234 Seiten
...memorial of himself. " Now Absalom in his lifetime," says the sacred historian, '•' had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's...name, and it is called unto this day Absalom's place." A pillar, by the way, that proved the monument of his disgrace as a rebellious son, rather than of... | |
| Sarah Rogers Haight - 1840 - 344 Seiten
...Absalom, for, in 2 Sam. xviii., 18, it is recorded, that " Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared for himself a pillar which is in the king's dale :...and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place." About a quarter of a mile north of these tombs is tha " Garden of Gethsemane," lying close to the road... | |
| 1840 - 870 Seiten
...his tent. 18 •" Now Absalom in his life-time had taken and rrared up for himself a pillar, which u white baskets lie called the pillar after his own name : and it i - called unto thw day, Absalom's place. 19 T[ Then... | |
| John Kitto - 1841 - 640 Seiten
...account in the Book of Samuel, was erected by Absalom. ' Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's...; and it is called unto this day Absalom's Place.' Josephus also informs us that ' Absalom had erected for himself a stone marble pillar in the king's... | |
| Charles Henry Hartshorne - 1841 - 702 Seiten
...upon the grave of Rachael10; and Absolom in his life time took and feared up for himself a pillar, for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance...after his own name ; and it is called unto this day, Absolom's Place". That the MONOLITHES which now remain were connected with objects partly devotional,... | |
| 1842 - 146 Seiten
...Rev. RW Hamilton. BIBLICAL NOTES. ABSALOM'S PILLAR. — " Nmo Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's...have no son to keep my name in remembrance : and he BIBLICAL NOTES. 29 called the pillar after his own name : and it is called unto this day, Absalom's... | |
| 1745 - 522 Seiten
...people leave others to build tombs for them ; but Absalom " took and reared up for himself a pillar in the king's dale, for he said, I have no son to...remembrance ; and he called the pillar after his own name." These two things, the ambition to be thought much of, and the desire of having his own will, seem to... | |
| 1842 - 380 Seiten
...children, or else after they had all died,) to keep up my name in remembrance.' Arid he called Ihe pillar after his own name; and it is called unto this day 'Absalom's Place.'" (2 Sam. xviii. 18.) It is mentioned by Josephus as a marble column; but our engraving represents the... | |
| Manasseh ben Israel, Elias Hiam Lindo - 1842 - 354 Seiten
...Absalom had sons, but none of them fit for, or deserving the kingdom : and this is what the text says, " for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance," meaning, such a son as would make his name memorable : this solution is adopted by Rashi. R. Hasdai,... | |
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